11.10: Idea, as Genre, with Nancy Fulda
Nancy Fulda joined us in the dark dungeons of Dragonsteel Entertainment to discuss the elemental genre of "Idea." It's tricky, because "Idea" in the elemental genres model isn't quite the same as "Ide...
6 Mar 201620min
11.09: Q&A on the Element of Wonder
Gama Ray Martinez joins us at LTUE to field questions on the Element of Wonder, which were submitted by members of our audience. Here are the questions: * How do you create wonder in non-genre stori...
28 Feb 201617min
11.08: Wonder as a Subgenre
If the Element of Wonder is the driving force behind "sense of wonder" science fiction and fantasy, then that same element can be used to give wondrous flavor to stories whose driving force lies among...
21 Feb 201620min
11.07: The Convention Survival Kit, with Gail Carriger
Gail Carriger joined us at WorldCon in Spokane, Washington, to talk about her Convention Survival Kit, which is full of things most of us wish we'd known to bring to conventions back when we first sta...
14 Feb 201618min
11.06: The Element of Wonder
We've introduced the concept of Elemental Genre already. It's time to start digging in to the elements themselves, beginning with the Element of Wonder. We started with this one because "sense of wond...
7 Feb 201618min
11.05: Writing and World Building for Role Playing Games
Michelle Lyons-McFarland, Monica Valentinelli, and Shanna Germain joined Howard and Dan at GenCon Indy for an episode which is a thinly-veiled indulgence for Howard to glean advice from three people w...
31 Jan 201617min
11.04: Newton’s Laws of Writing
In the interest of experimenting with metaphor, and our ongoing need to keep writing, we played with the idea of mapping Newton's Laws onto the process of writing. Because obviously a wordcount at re...
24 Jan 201619min
11.03: Layering The Elemental Genres
For our second Elemental Genre episode we discuss using the concept of Elemental Genre to help you manage sub-plots, character arcs, and genre mashups. We've each used the tool in these ways, and we p...
17 Jan 201618min
